In addition to the immediate dangers, the effects of war on children will have lasting negative consequences if not addressed. The Ukrainian government has documented close to 20,000 cases of children forcibly taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine for forced russification, a war crime under the Geneva Convention that could amount to genocide. Almost two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have been displaced, thousands have been injured and hundreds killed. Ukraine’s children are suffering serious injury and trauma due to Russia’s genocidal war of aggression on Ukraine. and international action to both save Ukraine’s children and to put in place measures for the future that will protect children, as well as vulnerable refugees around the world, from wartime atrocities and from other threats such as human trafficking. Russia’s war has exposed the critical need for U.S.
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